How To Install esound-tools on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install esound-tools on CentOS 8.
What is esound-tools
The esound-tools package includes commandline utilities for controlling the EsounD daemon.
We can use yum or dnf to install esound-tools on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install esound-tools.
Install esound-tools on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install esound-tools using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install esound-tools
Install esound-tools on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install esound-tools using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install esound-tools
How To Uninstall esound-tools on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the esound-tools package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove esound-tools
esound-tools Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/esdcat
/usr/bin/esdctl
/usr/bin/esddsp
/usr/bin/esdfilt
/usr/bin/esdloop
/usr/bin/esdmon
/usr/bin/esdplay
/usr/bin/esdrec
/usr/bin/esdsample
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/12
/usr/lib/.build-id/12/d3dc79443b61df7e656a669596b9b2155b7256
/usr/lib/.build-id/15
/usr/lib/.build-id/15/59d0d3fe53f049f03f78f2713591ea88a09d97
/usr/lib/.build-id/19
/usr/lib/.build-id/19/80d32a776008a4f623ed4ee2979fbeddeb3102
/usr/lib/.build-id/27
/usr/lib/.build-id/27/252726e134338e11a80d7856fb1b8d8a17e99b
/usr/lib/.build-id/28
/usr/lib/.build-id/28/5ee2bc1b8493d9b36f404cadacb95a5c401e2c
/usr/lib/.build-id/59
/usr/lib/.build-id/59/9b270b5701a3dc51bb56b5b20049e4dc8f68f4
/usr/lib/.build-id/90
/usr/lib/.build-id/90/6a31e0580f89ec5622c117e396a8ca61812af8
/usr/lib/.build-id/b8
/usr/lib/.build-id/b8/8fde7202c8de1246d807de4e27f090d7556a99
/usr/share/man/man1/esdcat.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/esdctl.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/esddsp.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/esdfilt.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/esdloop.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/esdmon.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/esdplay.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/esdrec.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/esdsample.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install esound-tools on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.